Gunther Gies

Gunther Gies (1676-) was a general of Prussia.

Biography
Gunther Gies was born in 1676 in Konigsberg, East Prussia, Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) to a Baltic German family. Gies became a general of Prussia in the winter of 1700 after General Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau left the city to assault the Polish city of Warsaw, and he was responsible for the capture of Gdansk (Danzig) next year.